News tagged with muscle disorder

Apple peel makes mice mighty

For Popeye, spinach was the key to extra muscle. For the mice in a new University of Iowa study, it was apples, or more precisely a waxy substance called ursolic acid that's found in apple peel.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Epilepsy-linked memory losss worries more patients than doctors

Patients with epilepsy worry more than their physicians do about the patients' potential memory loss accompanying their seizure disorder, according to a recent study.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study finds children with autism have mitochondrial dysfunction

Children with autism are far more likely to have deficits in their ability to produce cellular energy than are typically developing children, a new study by researchers at UC Davis has found. The study, published today in ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Nov 30, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

HSAN 1: Identification of new mutations, more accurate diagnosis and improved genetic counseling

Belgian researchers at the University of Antwerp have identified several mutations that play an important role in the development of Hereditary Sensory and Autonomous Neuropathy Type 1 (HSAN 1). HSAN 1 is a rare genetic disorder ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Oct 08, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Novartis gains FDA approval for new MS drug

(AP) -- Federal health regulators have approved the first pill to treat the underlying causes of multiple sclerosis, a debilitating nervous system disorder that has traditionally been treated with injectable drugs.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Sep 22, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers nationwide ask for new focus on 'sudden death' heart disorder

(PHILADELPHIA) An abrupt, fatal heart attack in a young athlete on the playing field is a tragedy destined to repeat itself over and over until more is understood about hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a genetic disorder ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Sep 14, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Stem cells for first time used to create abnormal heart cells for study of cardiomyopathy

Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have for the first time differentiated human stem cells to become heart cells with cardiomyopathy, a condition in which the heart muscle cells are abnormal. The discovery will ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 09, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Acting out while asleep: a strange sleep disorder

During the day, Lawrence Neumann was a mild mannered man, considerate, kind and loving to his wife of many years, Bonnie.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Apr 09, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Disease-causing mutation disrupts movement of cell's 'power house'

New research shows how a mutation causes a common inherited neurodegenerative disease, according to a study in the March 24 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. The study shows that the mutation of a spec ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 23, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Low levels of vitamin D linked to muscle fat, decreased strength in young people

There's an epidemic in progress, and it has nothing to do with the flu. A ground-breaking study published in the March 2010 Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism found an astonishing 59 per cent of study subjec ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 05, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

AAN guideline evaluates treatments for muscle cramps

A new guideline from the American Academy of Neurology recommends that the drug quinine, although effective, should be avoided for treatment of routine muscle cramps due to uncommon but serious side effects. The guideline ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 22, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

From fruit fly wings to heart failure -- why Not(ch)?

Almost a century after it was discovered in fruit flies with notches in their wings, the Notch signalling pathway may come to play an important role in the recovery from heart attacks. In a study published ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Treatment to improve degenerating muscle gains strength

A study appearing in Science Translational Medicine puts scientists one step closer to clinical trials to test a gene delivery strategy to improve muscle mass and function in patients with certain degenerative muscle disord ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Genome sequence for the domestic horse unveiled

The whole genome sequence of the domestic horse has been completed by the genome-sequencing center of The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, in collaboration with an international team of researchers that ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists discover clues to what makes human muscle age

(PhysOrg.com) -- A study led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, has identified critical biochemical pathways linked to the aging of human muscle. By manipulating these pathways, the ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (25) | comments 3